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    MIDNIGHT CLUSTER

    May 28, 2019 3 minutes

    Midnight’s Pedigree. See pedigree for Fourth of July (Chubby’s dam) for notes on ancestral horses.

    Midnight, foaled in 1916, in a color portrait made from two original photos: The “big knee” acquired from an unreceptive mare is an injury sported by more than one ranch-bred stallion allowed to serve a band of broodmares on range. That lump is the only flaw in the appearance of this highly influential and important foundational Quarter Horse. Standing 14:2 hands and weighing about 1,150 pounds in breeding condition, Midnight exhibits excellent

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